Black History Month may be coming to an end, but we make Black history everyday. Before me I see a sea of bodies, gathered together in a similar way to those who gathered at the national mall during the march on Washington in 1963. Beneath the[…]

I recently shared a note about Macro Social Work that contained resources describing some of the possible skills, definitions, and areas of macro practice we can find ourselves in. Public Health can be one of those areas. As you explore this video, think of ways in which[…]

“Stop telling women to watch their backs, when we’re the ones who stare at their backs as they walk past…Rather, speak up and teach boys and men…” Video Description: “One Student Production Fellow Chaz Smith created this masterful piece that focuses on dismantling rape culture, specifically[…]

Keep Reading Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian

"The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor for their definite future if it involves free, self-assertive modern manhood. This does not mean all Americans. A saving few are worried about the Negro problem; a still larger group are not ill-disposed, but they fear prevailing public opinion. The great mass of Americans are, however, merely representatives of average humanity. They muddle along with their own affairs and scarcely can be expected to take seriously the affairs of strangers or people whom they partly fear and partly despise.

For many years it was the theory of most Negro leaders that this attitude was the insensibility of ignorance and inexperience, that white America did not know of or realize the continuing plight of the Negro. Accordingly, for the last two decades, we have striven by book and periodical, by speech and appeal, by various dramatic methods of agitation, to put the essential facts before the American people. Today there can be no doubt that Americans know the facts; and yet they remain for the most part indifferent and unmoved."

Moderated by Karen Zgoda, here is the transcript of last night’s #MacroSW chat on twitter entitled “Everything You Wanted To Know About Macro Social Work But Were Afraid to Ask“. I’m re-posting the resources that were gathered before the chat took place because they can serve as[…]

The note “More Resources for Teaching About #Ferguson” was included in the list “Resources for Commemorating Selma Sunday 2015” on the Unitarian Universalist Association’s website. “1965. Marion, Alabama. Civil Rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot and fatally wounded by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard[…]

I was listening to a speaker this past MLK Day who talked about how we can sometimes have a tendency to place King and others on such a high pedestal, that the courage that they had and the work that they’ve done can seem to be unattainable for[…]

"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."

— President Barack Obama

Ta-Nehisi Coates published an article in the Atlantic yesterday addressing the criticism President Obama is receiving after his statements acknowledging that Christianity has been used as a means to justify racism and oppression. “Using religion to brutalize other people is not a Muslim invention, nor is it[…]

People are not disabled because of some inherent flaw on their part, people are disabled because of a society that is unwilling to include them, and provide the supports that are necessary to enable them to live their lives as full citizens. The text Teaching[…]

Uncovering Privilege

The Uncovering Privilege Series
Learn about times when others have discovered their unearned privilege, and what they chose to do with that information. I am actively seeking submissions for this series. Read on to learn about how to share your own stories..